So I have been following this Anthony Sowell case on twitter since I first heard about it. And to think this type of amorality exists is really appalling, especially since I have been to Cleveland many times. But what I find more disturbing than the black serial killer himself (we all know the majority of serial killers in America are white) I was surprised that in a society that is hyper-sensitive to death threats and maintaining the law insomuch that security guards at the airport had to check my ponytail for potential bombs and bike riders get d.u.i.’s, that the report of all of these missing women went unchecked for such a long time with so much evidence mounting on this guy.
Then I realized why.
Oh, it is because it was poor black families reporting that their black daughters were missing. Throw in the fact that a possible black rapist lives a block away and you exponentially raise the apathy. The cops just don’t care.
They have identified seven victims so far out of the 11 and ALL of them are black.
1. Tonia Carmichael
2. Telacia Fortson
3. Tishana Culver
4. Nancy Cobbs
5. Amelda Hunter
6. Chrystal Dozier
7. Michelle Mason
I assume the same process occurs when a resume of someone named Shawneequa (my mother’s name) passes an interviewer’s desk. She gets passed right over, just like Tonia, Telacia, and Tishana did.
Nevermind that the stench of rotting flesh that every one complained about is completely distinct from the smell of the sausage factory down the street. Nevermind that a known sex offender lived a block away from these women. Nevermind that people actually witnessed a naked woman being thrown from the window. Just let the niggers rot!
Are we still living in the A Time to Kill moment where for a jury to sympathize with a black victim we have to close our eyes and pretend she is white for anyone to give a flying fuck? People are pointing at the police and stating they didn’t do their job but they are forgetting to ask why they didn’t do their job…because nobody cares about those black broads, just another crack whore off the street.
imagine she is being raped-we don't care. imagine she is being beaten-we dont care. imagine she is being beaten and raped but she is WHITE. ok now i guess we care. that really *is* appalling!!!
I’m sure the detectives weren’t being told that they had by 5 pm to interview everyone associated with Tishana because she was black and hence, doesn’t matter.
This whole situation reminds me of what Eartha Kitt’s character says in Spike Lee’s Summer of Sam. For those who don’t know Summer of Sam details how the Son of Sam affected the the city of New York with his numerous murders of women. I love this film and the dystopic landscape it is set agaisnt but I digress. In the film Spike Lee as a newscaster goes to Harlem to get the “darker perspective.” Eartha Kitt states that she “thanks God that it is a white man killing all of those white girls, because if it were a black man killing all those white girls there would be the biggest race riot New York City had ever seen.”
summer of sam
And after reading about this case I am inclined to agree. I hope I don’t get kidnapped by a black serial killer, god forbid. Cuz now I know the only way anyone would do anything is if there is some white girl trapped in there with me. Sigh.
1 Comment
November 10, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Appalling. Thanks for writing about this.